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Lab Chromium Contamination Confirmed on San Ildefonso Pueblo Land
Comprehensive Cleanup Needed Instead of More Nuclear Weapons The New Mexico Environment Department has announced: “A toxic chromium plume from Los Alamos National Laboratory has spread beyond Lab boundaries onto...
Lab Chromium Contamination Confirmed on San Ildefonso Pueblo Land
Comprehensive Cleanup Needed Instead of More Nuclear Weapons FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, November 14, 2025 Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342, c. 505.470.3154 | Email Contact: Scott Kovac, 505.316.4148 | Email Santa Fe,...
A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America’s Nuclear Weapon Scientists
“Ypsilanti, Michigan resident KJ Pedri doesn’t want her town to be the site of a new $1.2 billion data center, a massive collaborative project between the University of Michigan and...
Nuclear Weapons Issues & The Accelerating Arms Race: November 2025
Nuclear weapons: The government shutdown has impact: https://sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/national-nuclear-security-agency-confirms-furloughs-at-offices-in-albuquerque-los-alamos/ National Nuclear Security Agency confirms 152 furloughed at offices in Albuquerque, Los Alamos Only 14 employees remain at the two sites By:...
Trump Orders Nuclear Weapons Testing for New Nuclear Arms Race
New Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Cores at Los Alamos Lab Could Make It Real FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 30, 2025 Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342, c. 505.470.3154 | Email Santa Fe, NM...
Trump Orders Nuclear Weapons Testing for New Nuclear Arms Race
New Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Cores at Los Alamos Lab Could Make It Real Just minutes before meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump posted on his Truth Social media platform...
New Mexicans Can Save the DNFSB; Contact Our Senators Today
From our friends at Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety: The independent Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has been dwindling from a five-member board to one member and may disappear if...
Nuclear Weapons Issues & The Accelerating Arms Race: August 2025
Nuclear Weapons Budget: • NNSA’s detailed budget was finally released, the latest ever. $2.8 billion is for “plutonium modernization” (i.e., pit production) projects, of which $1.8 billion for LANL. The...
August 6th U.S. Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima Commemoration in Santa Fe
Eighty Years Later, it is Beyond Time to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons. Last week on August 6, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, community...
Santa Fe New Mexican MY VIEW – 80 years on: The immorality of nuclear weapons
By John C. Wester, SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN | August 5, 2024 santafenewmexican.com Greetings New Mexicans. The lord’s blessings upon you. I am writing to you from Hiroshima, Japan, on the...
Planned Nuclear Weapons Activities Increase to 84% of Lab’s Budget; All Other Programs Cut
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 30, 2025 Contact: Scott Kovac – 505.316.4148 | Email The Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory have released the LANL congressional budget request for the...
Planned Nuclear Weapons Activities Increase to 84% of Lab’s Budget; All Other Programs Cut
The Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory have released the LANL congressional budget request for the upcoming fiscal year, 2026, which begins on October 1, 2025. The request...
NNSA’s Nuclear Weapons Programs Slated for 53% Increase
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 3, 2025 Contact: Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Topline budget figures for the Department of Energy (DOE) have been released under...
Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production
AIKEN, S.C. — Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy, published a formal Notice of Intent in the Federal Register...
Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, May 9, 2025 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Queen Quet, Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, 843-838-1171, GullGeeCo@aol.com Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com...
Formal Comments on the Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Full NukeWatch LANL SWEIS Comments Out Now! The LANL SWEIS public comment period has ended, but you can still take action: Use our recent extensive comments as a resource &...
Share Your Experiences at Los Alamos National Laboratory
The New York Times would like to hear from you about workplace protocols and safety measures at LANL. By Alicia Inez Guzmán | Alicia Inez Guzmán is reporting on the...
NukeWatch Los Alamos Lab Site-Wide EIS Workshop – February 6, 2025
Full Video Recording: NukeWatch Los Alamos Lab Site-Wide EIS Workshop NukeWatch Presentation: Los Alamos Lab Site-Wide EIS Workshop
Hot Plutonium Pit Bomb Redux
“Plaintiffs including Savannah River Site Watch, South Carolina Environmental Law Project Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Tri-Valley CAREs forced NNSA to halt construction on many phases...
Historic Settlement Reached in NEPA Lawsuit Over Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production
Nonprofit public interest groups have reached an historic settlement agreement with the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). This is the successful result...
Historic Settlement Reached in NEPA Lawsuit Over Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 17, 2025 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505-989-7342, jay@nukewatch.org...
DOE Rejects Comprehensive Cleanup at Los Alamos Lab; Designates Expanded Nuclear Weapons Production as Preferred Future
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 15, 2025 Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Today, in an informal conference hosted by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), the Department of...
Independent Review of Chromium Groundwater Contamination Fails to Make Final Cleanup Recommendation
After 20 Years Los Alamos Lab Still Doesn’t Know Size of Plume At Present Rate Cleanup Will Take More Than a Century FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 2, 2025 Contact: Jay...
Independent Review of Chromium Groundwater Contamination Fails to Make Final Cleanup Recommendation
After 20 Years Los Alamos Lab Still Doesn’t Know Size of Plume At Present Rate Cleanup Will Take More Than a Century On December 30, 2024, in the middle of...